Greetings fellow RPers and to those on the Mateus server especially. Though I hope you all will check this out. I'll tell you a little about myself and then I'll have a few questions at the end if anyone is up to helping a RP newb get around. First, this is my first MMO of any kind. Been on since launch day on the PS4 and have never not wanted to be logged in. So much to do, so many cool places to go, so many interesting people, so many "interesting" people >.<. I'm a huge RPG fan all around and now that I've caught up, so to say, on content and finding most of my friends are jumping to other servers to raid more or hang out with real life friends, I find myself with lots of free time. I have always wanted to try RP, even wanted to play D&D when I was younger but no one where I lived played, and so I figure now is the best time to try.
I am sadly more shy than I realized. I've been working on my characters background, but after several revisions I'm no closer to being done with it. I have tried to RP with a few people in game but I'm never sure how to approach many things. Many use the /em to start their stuff, others use "*" to dictate movements they make, others just want to sell ERP sessions for gil, and others still send back a "Don't talk to me" message even though their "RP" is up and their search comment says, "WU/T loved." Is this all normal? Is there more I should know before I go out to try this? I'm reading some of the articles here today so that will help some but it's funny, I can make a million bad jokes and puns in Party Finder, in Dungeons, Eureka, and so forth, but walking up to a character in a virtual bar gives me pause.
Well, that's it for now. Like I said at the top, I would appreciate any and all advice and if you on Mateaus and you see me around, say "Hi" if my RP is up, I'll try to do the same. >.<d